PERILS OF AN AGE OF HURRY.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1923, Page 4

PERILS OF AN AGE OF HURRY.

i NOT enough USE of brains. | EON DON, A Lay 1. Sir Hugh Allen, director of the Royal College of Alusic. South Kensington, m his address to the students at the opening of the now Brin yesterday said : We are constantly in danger id being in a hurry. Every new invention seems to he devoted to the saving of time, and yet we seem In have less of it J every year ; or to the annihilation ol j J space S|> that we can transpi.it o.n- * I selves with great rapidity anywhere | and lack again as quick as thought, j - The result is we become more and more j I rest less and have not the time to dc- j I vote to quiet contemplation of things,! ! which, after all. is the , nly means ■-! i I miining stability and wisdom. There t ji. ■* ui-iu'ial desire to speed up every-. i hingx to got everywhere, <b> every-, ■ ping se- and bear c-veryi h:ug in In- | ai-.-i.--i i- ; : passible trouble t-> ourselves. Ino j VC*.-.- dfiei. iii-v and rapidiiy of our * means of transport creates a dis.posi- | t ion I.* haw our m.iv.-mciits to the j !:,-i lui'iuta. And then we find we are | : (lll „n Into. but i here is always at hand J : ( .v. ~-*■ tb-.il we were delaved by j ! ,1, .i ; ;ii., or omnibus, wbei-'a- n was | | our own delay entirely, i RRO.VIX ASTING PROSPECT. Tbe.e is a danger that it will be- * j m-c.-ssarv In li-c our brains 1,,,; our eyes and ears. Now we wiib a. furl her short,-cut: developmeMl IH hroa>leas’ in-j. When the ,lav arrives w ilii all invell, ion Tor hruadeasi ing which will operate througl, everv window. whether WO li);,- ji or not, we 'hell have to keep; ii ,*UI of. rather than to help it into, j mi!' lioii-i's. The old earl li is a wry fair sir-, but j | wo all colleet in Huh- hum-lies of any j | number from . r .()JI!)<) to H.OdOJTdO for j i w hat we call eiimpanion'hir*. A\ e -pend | j our lives in gening in each other - ; j wav. trending on each others toes,, j u-ying i-* get Imhl of each other’s be- j | longing-, ami generally behaving in ; ; an undignified v ay j Wo .-all t lll- human progress, ami wo , I a*,, ii*-, proml o, ii. Me know it )-j mu i;infin-table ami nuiu-allhy. we alt , know we would so min-h railier be alon--’ in Hie wilderness e.-niemidallng mil urn i : i m-.iestie h-ii-liie but vre ; all -v i !-e same : (! iv<- me oil v life, j give me mankind in bulk, give me j j l.omlou. Iloman being-- are grailualiy j | drawn inio ever-growing mas-o-; (la: j | loroes whirl, atiraoi thorn an- irro-is- j | I -hie : I’- *• v a-- <1: : ■ 11 ill and spend i | H eir remaining d iy- in a stream of I I rderi,uis and everlasting aelivi.'y. i | E ok at Wontblov ! TT<e danger oi jhi- age is hurrying I —-making -hco-t .-in -. living to run be- j fore we can walk. Bal t ben- Is no short cut to (7,- , trained mind of tie 1 rained artist, and I work done in a burry is never half awell do-u- Diet do-io at a -leadv i pare. ' |